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XVI.

A NEW HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE,

From the TERMINATION of the FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Translated from the German of FREDERICK VON RAUMER. With copious Additions and Notes, original, and selected from other Sources. 8vo.

XVII.

A POPULAR ACCOUNT of the MODE of LIVING among the GREEKS, Social, Religious, and Civil. Translated from the German of Dr. HENRY HASE.

Foolscap 8vo.

XVIII.

ILLUSTRATIONS of the GEOLOGY of YORKSHIRE.

By JOHN PHILLIPS, F. R. S., F. G. S.,

Professor of Geology in King's College, London.

Vol. II. 4to.

XIX.

THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND;

Their Origin, History, and Antiquities, with a Sketch of their Manners and Customs, and an Account of the CLANS into which they were divided, and of the State of Society which existed among them.

XX.

GEOLOGY of the COUNTIES OF SALOP, HEREFORD, RADNOR, PEMBROKE, MONTGOMERY, BRECKNOCK, CAERMARTHEN, MONMOUTH, WORCESTER, and GLOUCESTER, with a large Geological Map, numerous Coloured Sections, and many Plates of unpublished Organic Remains. By RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, F. R. S., Vice-President of the Geological and Royal Geographical Societies, F.L.S. &c. &c. Royal 4to.

This Day are published,

GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS

OF

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DR. JOHNSON.

With Plates, and descriptive Letter-press, super-royal 8vo, 3s. 6d. To be continued at intervals, and to contain PORTRAITS of REMARKABLE PERSONS, many of which have never before been engraved;

FAC-SIMILES of their AUTOGRAPHS; and

VIEWS of the most interesting LOCALITIES Connected with them.

A small number of Copies, royal 4to proofs, 5s., and 4to India proofs, before letters, 7s. 6d.

CONTENTS OF PART I.

1. Lichfield, the Birthplace of Johnson. Sketched and drawn by C. Stanfield.

2. Portrait of Dr. Johnson's Father.

3. Fac-simile of the Letter of Gilbert Walmesley, introducing Johnson and Garrick on their first Visit to London.

4. Edward Cave, Originator of the Gentleman's Magazine.

5. St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell; and Autograph of Cave.

6. Fac-simile of Dr. Johnson's Letter to Cave, 1788.

CONTENTS OF PART II.

1. Dr. Johnson's House in Bolt Court, Fleet Street, now destroyed. 2. Whole-length Portrait of General Oglethorpe -from a Sketch taken by Sam. Ireland.

3. The Grammar School at Lich

field, where Dr. Johnson was educated and the Academy at Edial, where he was Teacher in 1736.

4. Portrait of Warren Hastings. 5. Autographs of distinguished Contemporaries of Johnson.

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